Mountainbiking and bikepacking in Sussex and further afield
Tour Divide Diary Day 2 26/06/16 Boulton Creek to Elkford 50.1 miles 2618.1 feet of climbing Cumulative 108 miles 6820 feet of climbing We stayed at the campsite near the lake, when we got up we went back up to the Boulton Creek Trading Post and bought ourselves water and supplies for the day. We…
Tour Divide Diary Day 1 25/06/16 Banff to Boulton Creek 58.8 miles 4202.8 feet of climbing We ended up getting into the motel in Calgary pretty late after picking up the hire car. It was cold, chucking it down with rain and we eventually got the bike boxes through the airport to the car hire…
Here is the playlist of the videos we filmed on our Tour Divide trip in the Summer of 2016. Please share and comment if you like them.
The Welsh Ride Thing last year was my first foray into multi day bikepacking, and it was such an amazing weekend. Well how things change in a year, now I’m on the countdown to riding the Tour Divide and this years event was a good excuse for Tom and I to test our bikes with…
So when you do any big trip one of the big things these days is keeping your gadgets charged, especially if you aren’t going near mains electricity at all. Camera, phone, GoPro, GPS, as well as lights all need powering and recharging. The dynamo hub is great for this job, but some extra electronics is…
It’s not about the bike… or is it? Who am I kidding I love bikes, I love shiny stuff, and I love putting something together from the ground up and building a bike that works exactly the way I want it to. I’m lucky as I work in the cycle trade and have had a…
This was going to be an interesting weekend, first time away somewhere more remote for Tom, first time loaded up on my new Travers and first time for us both with what we imagine to be our Tour Divide kit shared between us. The weather forecast was horrific, but the reality was somewhat better, initially…
The Great Divide Route is the world’s longest off-pavement cycling route, it covers 2745 miles. The route is highlighted by long dirt roads and jeep trails that wend their way through forgotten passes of the Continental Divide. It travels through Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and the United States of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,…
The plan was simple, ride to Paris, watch the Tour de France, ride home! On paper the Avenue Verte looks east enough, in reality there are some bits where the signage could be better… Day 1 The 23:00 turned into the 00:00 ferry and we were packed on board with what seemed like a peleton…
Apologies, this is going to be a mega blog! I’ve been playing at bivvying with the boys for over a year now. Slowly I’m refining my kit, stuff is slowly getting lighter, more functional and better packed. This was my first multi day trip and I was a bit nervous about it as it was…
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